Holonic and Multi-Agent Systems for Manufacturing

1. Front Matter

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2. Holonic Manufacturing Systems – Device Control

   1. Holonic Manufacturing Systems: Phase II

      • William A. Gruver, Dilip B. Kotak, Edwin H. van Leeuwen, Douglas Norrie

      Pages 1-14

   2. A Mechanism for Ensuring Safe Behaviors of Holonic Manufacturing Systems

      • Shinsuke Tamura, Naoya Nishi, Tatsuro Yanase

      Pages 15-24

   3. A Real-Time Interface for Holonic Control Devices

      • Robert William Brennan, Kenwood Hall, Vladimír Mařik, Francisco Maturana, Douglas Hector Norrie

      Pages 25-34

   4. Integration of Automation Resources in Holonic Manufacturing Applications

      • Paulo Leitão, Raymond Boissier, Francisco Casais, Francisco Restivo

      Pages 35-46

3. Foundations/Platforms

   1. JAVA-Based Agent Platform Evaluation

      • Pavel Vrba

      Pages 47-58

   2. An Approach to the Formal Specification of Holonic Control Systems

      • Paulo Leitão, Armando W. Colombo, Francisco Restivo

      Pages 59-70

   3. Holonic Multiagent Systems: A Foundation for the Organisation of Multiagent Systems

      • Klaus Fischer, Michael Schillo, Jörg Siekmann

      Pages 71-80

   4. The Link between Autonomy and Organisation in Multiagent Systems

      • Michael Schillo, Klaus Fischer, Jörg Siekmann

      Pages 81-90

4. Scheduling and Resource Allocation

   1. Fault-Tolerant Behaviour in Holonic Manufacturing Systems: A Simulation Study

      • Thomas Neligwa, S. Misbah Deen

      Pages 91-99

   2. Multiagent-Based Process Planning and Scheduling in Context of Supply Chains

      • Berend Denkena, Michael Zwick, Peer-Oliver Woelk

      Pages 100-109

   3. Improving Multi-agent Based Scheduling by Neurodynamic Programming

      • Balázs Csanád Csáji, Botond Kádár, László Monostori

      Pages 110-123

   4. Agent Architecture for Dynamic Job Routing in Holonic Environment Based on the Theory of Constraints

      • Leonid B. Sheremetov, Jorge Martínez, Juan Guerra

      Pages 124-133

5. Simulation and Integration

   1. A Heterogeneous Multi-agent Modelling for Distributed Simulation of Supply Chains

      • Olivier Labarthe, Erwan Tranvouez, Alain Ferrarini, Bernard Espinasse, Benoit Montreuil

      Pages 134-145

   2. Integration of Shop Floor Holons with Automated Business Processes

      • Klaus Glanzer, Thomas Schmidt, Gerald Wippel, Christoph Dutzler

      Pages 146-155

   3. Proposal of Holonic Manufacturing Execution Systems Based on Web Service Technologies for Mexican SMEs

      • Luis Gaxiola, Miguel de J. Ramírez, Guillermo Jimenez, Arturo Molina

      Pages 156-166

6. Multi-agent Systems

   1. Secure FIPA Compliant Agent Architecture Draft

      • Tomáš Vlcek, Jan Zach

      Pages 167-178

   2. Agent Exchange – Virtual Trading Environment

      • Jiří Hodík, Milan Rollo, Petr Novák, Michal Pěchouček

      Pages 179-188

   3. Adding OWL Semantics to Ontologies Used in Multi-agent Systems for Manufacturing

      • Marek Obitko, Vladimír Mařík

      Pages 189-200

   4. Complex Data Integration Based on a Multi-agent System

      • Omar Boussaid, Fadila Bentayeb, Amandine Duffoux, Frederic Clerc

      Pages 201-212

The increasing complexity of manufacturing systems as well as the overall demands for flexible and fault-tolerant control of production processes stimulates (among many others) two key emerging technologies that are already making an important breakthrough in the field of intelligent manufacturing, control, and diagnostics. These two paradigms are: • the holonic approach based on the event-driven control strategy, usually aimed at modular control systems that are directly physically linked with the manufacturing hardware equipment, and • the multi-agent approach developed in the area of distributed information processing. The research communities working in both these fields are approaching the problem of intelligent manufacturing from different viewpoints and, until recently, to a certain extent, in an independent way. We can however observe quite a clear convergence of these fields in the last few years: the communities have started to cooperate, joining efforts to solve the painful problems involved in achieving effective industrial practice. We can see convergence in the terminology, standards and methods being applied.

• Planning
• agent technology
• agent-based manufacturing
• automation
• autonom
• distributed computing
• fault-tolerant production control
• holonic manufacturing systems
• intelligent diagnostics
• intelligent manufacturing control
• modeling
• multi-agent systems
• organization
• production
• semantics

• Gerstner Laboratory, Czech Technical University in Prague, Prague 6, Czech Republic

  Vladimír Mařík

• Institute for Manufacturing, Cambridge University, Cambridge, UK

  Duncan McFarlane

• Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

  Paul Valckenaers

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